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2 itemsOrganisation: Indonesian parliament (DPR) ✕Event: Sukarno–Hartini marriage controversy ✕
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GA-01061 1954-10-06 Het Parool rel B

Parlement over tweede huwelijk van Soekarno

Parliament on Sukarno's second marriage

Het Parool report (6 Oct 1954, p.108): parliament asks the government to clarify its stand on President Sukarno's second marriage, as the controversy causes the first rift in the year-old PNI-PKI coalition. A woman MP of the socialist fraction submitted the request, and parliament received a petition from women's movem

GA-01377 1954-10-07 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel B

Soekarno's huwelijk (Sukarno's marriage)

Sukarno's marriage

Tubantia/Twentsch Dagblad brief (7 Oct 1954): the Indonesian parliament asks the government's view on Sukarno's second marriage and, with communists voting against, agrees to consider a women's movement petition to deprive Muslim men of the right to marry more than one wife. Relevant to the polygamy campaign Gerwani an